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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."

"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."

"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."

"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
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"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."

"The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it."

"While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude."

"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."
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